Why does /lit/ hate and meme upon Ben Stiller's character Samual Harris? He raises some good points and is well spoken.
/lit/ is the Muslim apologist board
He's a non-philosopher that actually thinks science can inform moral opinion.
I bought a copy of his """"book"""" moral landscape and literally pissed on it after reading it
What are the criteria for a book to be adult?
What are the criteria for a book to be for children?
Is it acceptable for adults to read children's literature? Should children read literature that is intended for adults?
Books can't be adults or children. They're mad of paper.
Nobody "should" do anything at all.
Why does it say "Your" on the book
So I am memeing into the greeks. When it comes to the plays I honestly wonder if I should bother.
Why not just watch a performance instead? It was how they were intented to be consumed, and it will take a fraction of the time.
Same with Shakespear. I've seen performances of hamlet, is there any point in reading it?
"Should" is a nonsense word, know better than to use it in the future; all you'll get is a bunch of opinions.
On the other hand, if you LIKE to read plays then there's no reason not to read No Exit by Sartre - as it is very short indeed.
If you don't like reading plays I wouldn't suggest you do so - but somebody has to read the plays otherwise nobody would be able to put them on.
At the very least read the three Theban plays. I'd say the Medea, the Orestia trilogy, and Prometheus Bound are almost mandatory too.
>>8990999
fine digits my friend.
/lit/ Btfo once again.
He was /ourguy/ indeed.
>>8990856
manlets don't count
>Heidegger
>right wing
No, first you'd need a political wing called garbled verbal masturbation wing.
Why were whorehouses allowed to be run in plain sight in the Salinas Valley? Wasn't prostitution illegal?
>>8990799
What are you? Some kind of prude?
Fuck i meant east of eden
In Cannery Row, it explains that the owner of the whorehouse dedicated herself to philanthropy as a way to get people to overlook the illegality of her operation. She would make donations to the Policeman's Ball and many other charities each year. Occasionally someone's wife would kick up a stink and she would close shop for a while, but she'd be back up and running when the storm passed.
How to improve patience?
I find myself reading 40 pages and my mind just wanders, I can't be the only one.
Especially with having a short-attention span, it feels like I'm cursed sometimes, how do you practice patience?
I suffer from the same thing. I can't sit down for more than 10 minutes without finding myself standing up and doing something else for no reason. I usually make it 4 or 5 sentences in a novel before my brain starts wandering off. I was on something similar to Adderall as a kid and that helped a lot, but I don't feel comfortable taking it.
>>8990796
40 pages is pretty good before getting distracted.
40 pages is fine.
There, you're validated.
>Grigory taught him to read and write, and when he was twelve years old, began teaching him the Scriptures. But this teaching came to nothing. At the second or third lesson the boy suddenly grinned.
>"What's that for?" asked Grigory, looking at him threateningly from under his spectacles.
>"Oh, nothing. God created light on the first day, and the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day. Where did the light come from on the first day?"
Wow. How can anyone still be a Christfag after reading this? Dostoevsky was trying to red pill Christfags, but they still think he's one of them. LMAO. BTFO.
>>8990779
The light came from God.
>>8990791
OOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH
>>8990791
>3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
>4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
>5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Clearly the light was not from God. Smerdyakov truly ended Christianity at that moment.
Most influential poet in your country
I'll start with Mihai Eminescu
>>8990752
t. I hardly read (American) poetry.
Goethe
>>8990889
>influential
>Plath
Feminists are rare in America
Why the fuck was he allowed to writ the #1, #2, #79, and #498 best books of all times? How is this fair?
This man's refuse and discarded drafts are worth more than the entire oeuvres of some authors...
>all times
>>8990846
n-no bully...
>>8990700
I went to primary school with his great grandson. He had a rat tail hairstyle (this was the early 90s).
Hello. I'll start off by saying, yep, I've read the sticky.
So I've read a bit about Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and I think they're basically spot on and that in order to advance, I need to read them and completely comprehend them. The trouble is, whenever I attempt to "start with the Greeks", I get so. Fucking. Bored. Basically everything Plato talks about is stuff I already concluded. On my own. At age 13. Supposedly any philosophy following the Greeks is basically just building upon them, so they're "essential". My question is: Is there a way around this? Some kind of shortcut or just an annotated guide to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche?
Thanks for your help.
Don't mind me, just bumping my own thread. ;)
kys
>>8990674
very aesthetic picture
Anyone ever read this book? If so, what did you think?
For me one of my top 5 reads so far in my life.
>>8990667
For a highschool class.
I don't get it. It was alright, but I don't see why it's so universally beloved.
My (admittedly atheistic) traditionalism may have soured me to the premise and to the treatment of Jesus. Was the point of those chapters to invert and show a non-miraculous Jerusalem where miracles would be invented and a miraculous present where miracles would be ignored- suggesting... something?
Still, it was the only decent book from the Soviet semester. Fucking Reds.
Nah, I've spent a couple years trying to decide which translation to read.
>>8990702
You don't get it because you read a bad translation, which is why I'm at a standstill right now.
>>8990793
jeez louise, you could've learned russian by now
Why does right wing literature get no respect around here?
you ruined your own thread with that image
>>8990652
Go kill yourself faggot
>>8990652
becuase people here like to discuss ideas, not the petty resentment of incel failsons and their conman idols.
Would anyone be interested in a reading group going through all nineteen surviving plays of Euripides?
Even better, would anyone know of any good supplementary materials for the plays- analyses, critiques, and such?or be able provide good yuri pics for the OPs
I've read about half of Euripides, have been slacking on finishing up, and would definitely be down for this.
Don't know of any Euripides-specific commentaries, but I have a (still unread) cambridge companion to greek/roman drama, and there also exists a CC to greek tragedy.
>>8990817
We could just run through JSTOR.
>>8991178
I don't have access but would be interested to see what you could dig up. Keep in mind that deeper commentaries can get painfully academic to the point of being dull and useless to a non-professional in the field.
Why are *nglos so bad at literature?
>greatest philosopher was actually Scottish
>greatest English writer wasn't even British, was an Irish Catholic
>token faggot and greatest playwright was half-Irish and hated Br*tish society
>greatest female writer is J.K. Rowling
>Rutlandbaconsouthamptonshakespeare wasn't even a good Englishman since he was a Catholic
Explain yourself perfidious albion.
>britcucks, not even once
>>8990630
>token faggot and greatest playwright was half-Irish and hated Br*tish society
are you referring to Shaw or Wilde here?
>>8990630
Scotbong checking in
>Scotland
>Not part of Britain
Is he the greatest poet of the twentieth century?
>Charlie don't surf!
>free verse
>poetry
Nah, Neruda is.
>>8990532
I'd have to say D.H. Lawrence.
Mourning
WHY do you go about looking for me, mother?
I and my betrothed are together in the shed—
Sitting there together for a little while.
Why are you so anxious? Leave me peaceful with my dead.